About the Author

Deirdre Le Faye is Administrator at the British Museum. Her publications include Jane Austen: A Family Record, and co-author with Maggie Black of A Jane Austen Cookery Book.

Reviews

These are the letters of our greatest novelist ... they give glances and hints at her life from the age of 20 to her death at 41, the years in which she wrote her six imperishable books Claire Tomalin, Independent on Sunday